Unbeknown to many Hollywood Hills residents, a major, developing controversy involving a wealthy Singapore minister and his widely influential mega-church has come to their posh neighborhood.Over the past few weeks, City Harvest Church pastor Kong Hee, a Christian leader in the Charismatic Movement who oversees more than 40 affiliates in such places as Singapore, Taiwan, and Indonesia, has been the focus of a police probe in Singapore for the possible misuse of church funds.
Now Hee's questionable financial dealings may be surfacing in L.A.
Asian journalists, who have jumped on the story, don't know if anything is illegal about the expensive accommodations, but it's certainly a huge public relations gaffe for the embattled Hee and City Harvest Church. Full Story
